WELCOME TO REC ROOM “When Pan is dead then nature can be controlled by a new god: man. Modeled in the image of Prometheus and Hercules. Creating from it and polluting in it without a troubled conscience.” -James Hillman Hurricane Diane made me consider the parallels between Dionysus and Pan. Both are inherent outsiders associated with the irrational who push us to understand our own otherness. Each brings us closer to both our internal nature and our natural world. Dionysus, the luxuriating god of fruitfulness, vegetation, ecstasy, and wine (available at the Green Room Bar), entices us to instinct and madness. As a defender of wild animals, Pan is the god of nature and shepherds; a god of the wilds and instinct who resides at the edge of human civilization. Pan also resembles a collision of opposites (i.e., human and animal). Therefore, Pan is our bridge to nature. Pan acknowledges how we fit in; we are both part of and detached from the natural world.
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